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Crypto-Mining Hack Hijacks Thousands of Government Sites

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It appears that thousands of government sites around the world were mining cryptocurrencies via a popular "browsaloud" plugin used by blind and poorly-sighted people.

This technology was compromised in some way – either by hackers or rogue insiders altering Browsealoud's source code – to silently inject Coinhive's Monero miner into every webpage offering Browsealoud.

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I just got a bad email from a Govt site in Germany.

Looks like the hacker has a wicked program running using mined social media to connect the email to me in a personal way from my suppose to be wife. Used her name to actually forward the email to me. Like she forwarded the email to me to look at.

Pretty good one almost got me to look at the link and I am usually very careful.

Ouch! ^That's^ just downright, full on "I have absolutely no conscience" evil, bwnbwn . . and, of course, we know how such SOBs think: "Hey, if he's stupid enough to fall for our ploy it's his fault . . . that we steal his money, his personal info, his . . . "

Sometimes, I wish there was a hell (for such SOBs) . . and sometimes it feels like we needn't leave this planet earth to find it . . because of the SOBs . . sigh . .